The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-11
SATURDAY, JUNE IL, 1887.
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Ile river III HtillDeTS,
The many showers has greatly in
creased the grass crops.
The birds are taking the early C her
ries, what few there are.
Some of the shad fishermen have
gone a fishing for herring.
Frank Walker Jr., has returned to
Brooklyn to work on a tug.
j. u. Layton and wife, of Whining
ton, spent Sunday at his fathers.
Frank, the son of Capt. Joseph Bur
deu, of S%harptown, is seriously i'll with
typhoid fever.
Don't forget the festival of the
American Mechanics tonight in Odd
Fellows Hall.
Logan tribe of Red Men, of Ped
ricktOwn, LolG IA festival in Stetser's
Hall this evening.
Posters printed for festivals and
grass sales at the RECORD Office cheap
Ell than elsewhere.
Frank II. Walker and his son Chas.
have gone across the river to work in
the Edgemoor Steel works.
Rev. bennington Corson, of Sharp
town is preaching a course of ermon
on the "Pilgrims Progress"
The first camping out party erected
their tent on the shore between Penns-
grove and the Cove on Wednesday.
The biggest shad of the season VA
caught by John Body off B~illingsport
on Monday week. 1t weighed 81 tts.
On Monday John Summerill, Jr.,
took IA header from his bicycle and
had a bad cash cut in his head and
his leg badly bruised.
On Monday Fish Warden VIM. Law
renee arraigned two Pennsgrove fish
ermen before Justice DeGrDfft for fish
ing before IL O'Clock Oh Sunday night.
They were fined 81 each aud cost.
Hudson 5. Titus is master mechan-
ie at the erection of the round-h0use.
f.. III. Green, Superintendent of the
railroad, is a faithful employee of the
road and is OH the ground every day.
Next week we will have a contribu-
ton from a isherman's pen concerning
the stopping of fishing at night and
regulating the sizes of nets by law. 1t
will I've interesting to every FISHERMEN.
w. f. Walker has a new brand of
cigars made expressly for him. "Niko-
mis- the name of the popular tribe of
Red Men, of Pennsgrove, is the name.
Ever lover of the weed should try one.
Several of our citizens attended the
festival in Fogg Il Bassett's, new can
ming factory at Pennsville on Tuesday
evening. The building is large, COM
modious, open, and airy, for canning.
business.
Capt. Samuel NJ. Denny has broken
ground for a new house at the corner
of Pitman st. and Wissabickon Ave.
1t is as nice a site as there is in town
and undoubtedly the Captain will
build IA handsome house there on.
We are glad to know that our citi-
zens p~atronlze those who make their
business known in the columns of the
RECORD as every business man in the
vicinity should do. Theo. L. Adams,
painter and paper-hanger, has so mnch
business on hand that he now en-
ploys two iourneyman aud two appren-
tees.
Wilmington is having a prosperous
boom. There continues to be a de-
preston in the morocco manufacturing
but the car builders. ship-yards, iron
mills and carriage makers are running
to their fun capacity and in some cases
orders are turned away. A third more
manufactured goods are being turned
out than in any other year.
Tomorrow is Children's Day in all
the n. e. Churches. In the morning
appropriate sermons for the occasion
will be preached in Emmanuel and st.
Pauls churches and in the evening a
regular program for the occasion viii.
be carried out by the children. The
collections taken will be used for edu
cational purposes,
William G. Summerill has his col
"Black Almont", at the Woodstowr
Fair ground, being trained by Mel
Justice. Although the colt has no.
been trained but a few times he a
ready goes a three minute gait and has
promises OF a much faster speed. II,
is a half brother to G. Ii. Smiths Jer
sey Alment which trots a 2.40 gait an,
over 81. 900 has been refused foc him
by Mr.. Smith.
The soft bank of the canal now BE-
ing dredged for the Lobdell Car Vince
Company at their South Side works
Wilmington, gave way under the pres
sure of the high tide on Sunday anC
flooded the neighboring low lands an,
Christianna avenue 81 that the W. 4
N. trains could not ruu on the Chris
tiana ayenue branch. The wOrkmea
have since been going by the othe
route. The breach in the bank is be
ing repaired.